Author: Saar, BetyeThis title provides new insights into Saar's explorations of ritual, spirituality and cosmologies, as well as themes of the African diaspora. Featured here are significant installations created by Saar from 1980 to 1998, with compelling scholarship and rich illustration that combines new installation photography and archival material. This monograph provides a fresh look at this significant artist’s critical and influential practice. 'Betye Saar: Serious Moonlight' reinforces and celebrates Saar’s standing as a visionary artist, storyteller and mythmaker, and the ongoing significance and relevance of her work to the most pressing issues in America today.Betye Saar (born 1926) is renowned for pioneering Black feminism and West Coast assemblage in her visionary artistic practice, through dense, complexly referential objects. For over six decades, Saar’s work has led dialogues on race and gender, reflecting changing cultural and political contexts. Most recently, solo presentations have been hosted by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Saar’s work was prominently featured in 'We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85' at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, and in 'Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power' at Tate Modern, London, which travelled to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; Brooklyn Museum; The Broad, Los Angeles; and the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.ISBN 9781636810362. DelMonico Books/Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. hb. 208 pages. 150 colour, 20 b/w ills. 27 x 21 cm.in stock
